Our Leader visited Kansas earlier today and was asked some questions, one about immigration. The question was asked in Spanish, and the transcript provides the English version. The slightly coherent question apppeared to deal with discrimination against Hispanics, and included this bit that should have made Bush proud:

I come from Venezuela, which is a different country. But all of us are Hispanics and all of us embrace ourselves in the Americas, because America is -- North America, the United States, and Central and South America -- we are one continent and embrace each other.

It should have made Bush proud, but apparently his Spanish skills are right up there with Peggy Hill. Instead of answering what was asked, he launched into the pre-programmed "Guest worker spiel #4". I'm going to reprint the whole thing below the jump just so you my readers can bask in the barely-coherent open borders views of our "conservative" leader:

First of all, bienvenidos. And we have an obligation in this country to enforce our borders. And there's huge pressure on our borders. It's been a long border, obviously, with Mexico, and a long border with Canada. And the biggest problematic area right now is the border with Mexico, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

The issue is not only Mexican citizens who are coming across the border illegally, but it's other citizens who are coming across the border.

And our obligation is to use a wise strategy to shut down the trafficking of anything illegal across the border. We're a country of law and we must enforce the border.

BUSH: And we spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C., analyzing the border issues and strategizing with Congress about how to do a better job, including the following things: one, increasing the number of border patrol agents; two, increasing the use of technology on the border so that you can see people coming through -- you know, drones, for example, and then be able to rally the border patrol to stop people from coming across.

Some physical barriers, particularly in urban centers, are now being constructed. Some berms -- there's parts of our border where, literally, you can just drive across.

I mean, there's nothing -- you know, you just land and in you come. And it's hard. The demarcation zone is different. And it makes it hard for people to enforce the border.

Secondly, when we detain somebody at the border, we've got to have a rational policy to help back up the people we're paying to enforce the border.

And by that I mean if you are somebody from central America, for example, caught coming into our country, that the policy has been to give you a notification to report back to a judge and they will hear your case.

Well, guess what? A lot of them don't come back. They are here because they are trying to better their lives and they are going to move into our society as best as they can.

And they are not going to return back. So we're ending what's called catch and release and we're beginning to provide more detention space for our border patrol to be able to say to people, particularly from Central America and South America, you know: You've come illegally; we're sending you back home.

Thirdly, in terms of workers, we do have H1, H2B visa programs that we are constantly analyzing with the United States Congress. It makes sense that highly skilled workers, for example, be given work permits here in the United States if it helps us meet an economic objective.

But I feel strongly that we need to take the worker program a step further. And I'll tell you why. I'm mindful that most people come here to work. There are a lot of people in your state dependent upon people coming here to work.

I tell you, I used to say that, when I was the governor of Texas, family values didn't stop at the Rio Grande River. And people, you know, if they could make 50 cents and had mouths to feed or $5 and had mouths to feed, a lot of people would come to try to find that $5 work.

And so, here's my position, and that is that, if there is someone who will do a job an American won't do, then that person ought to be given a temporary worker card to work in the United States for a set period of time.

I do not believe that any guest worker program ought to contain amnesty because I believe that, if you granted amnesty to the people here working now, that that would cause another 8 million people or so to come here.

I do believe, however, it is humane to say to a person: You are doing a job somebody else won't do. Here is a temporary card to enable you to do the card (sic).

The length of the stay here will be dependent upon the actions of the Congress. It's conceivable you could have a three-year period with a renewal period.

I've thought a lot about this issue. I just want you to know. By the way, when you mentioned guest worker, a lot of people automatically spring to amnesties. All I want is to grant legal status. That's just not the case. I don't believe we ought to do that.

But I do believe we ought to recognize there are people doing work others won't do. And there's a lot of good employers here in Kansas employing these people. And the employers don't know whether or not somebody is here legally or not.

What's happened is a whole kind of industry has sprung up around people coming here.

BUSH: And it's inhumane, it's inhumane for the people being trafficked into the United States and it's not fair to employers who may be breaking the law.

And here's what I mean. You got people being smuggled into the United States of America by these criminal networks. They're called coyotes, "coyots," and they're bringing them in the back of 18- wheelers, stuffing human beings to come and do work in America that Americans won't do, in the back of 18-wheelers.

You've got a whole forgery industry up and running. And so these guys show up with documents so the employers says, "Well, they look legal to me." They don't know whether they're legal or not legal.

And I know that we got a lot of our border patrol agents trying to catch people sneaking in the country. And so it seems like to me that why don't we recognize reality, give people worker cards on a temporary basis, so somebody can come back and forth legally with a tamper-proof card that will enable an employer to know whether or not they're hiring somebody who's illegal. And if we catch employers after that hiring somebody illegal, there's got to be a fine and a consequence.

And so a compassionate way to enforce our border is to give people a temporary worker card, without granting amnesty.

That's a long answer to a very important problem, that now is the time for the United States to take it on squarely, in a humane way, that recognizes the situation and deals with it in an upfront way.

And I want to thank you for your question.

I'm stumped. How exactly can we make clear to all that our president is an un-American, anti-American, complete idiot?